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Man Accidentally Kills Self With Gun During Demonstration On Gun Safety
Russia Times ^ | 2/25/2014

Posted on 02/26/2014 2:14:34 PM PST by Lazamataz

A 36-year-old man from Independence Township apparently shot and killed himself by accident while trying to demonstrate gun safety to his girlfriend after he had been drinking, authorities said.

Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at about 9 p.m. Sunday to a home on the 4400 block of Pinedale, near Sashabaw and Maybee roads, where the man’s girlfriend was performing CPR.

The girlfriend told authorities that the man had been drinking all day and was explaining to her that his three handguns are safe when they aren’t loaded, according to Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe. He demonstrated by placing the guns against his head and pulling the trigger.

When he pulled the trigger on the third handgun, it discharged. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Three children, ages 7, 10, and 12, were home at the time but didn’t witness the shooting, McCabe said. They weren’t hurt. Authorities said they weren’t the man’s biological children.

Alcohol appears to have been a factor in the shooting, according to the sheriff’s office. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released.

Authorities continue to investigate.

The incident comes on the heels of another accidental shooting that made headlines. On Dec. 30, UAW Vice President General Holiefield was cleaning loaded guns in his Harrison Township home when he shot his wife, who survived the injury.

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To: Lazamataz

That’s why you don’t play Russian Roulette with a semi-auto pistol (or at all, for that matter).


61 posted on 02/26/2014 2:53:23 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Lazamataz

The gun and the man were loaded!


62 posted on 02/26/2014 2:53:29 PM PST by wvguy
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To: Lazamataz; cripplecreek

Michigan story about UAW VP posthumous Darwin Award in Russian Times.


63 posted on 02/26/2014 2:53:34 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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To: Lazamataz

Bleach in the Gene Pool...


64 posted on 02/26/2014 2:58:34 PM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: Old Sarge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPY3QAb6eFo


65 posted on 02/26/2014 3:01:03 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Lazamataz

Do a gun powder test on her hands.


66 posted on 02/26/2014 3:13:09 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Member of a “protected class”, a UAW VP in Michigan. I doubt that it was actually a “cleaning accident”, but his wife was somehow encouraged to confirm his story.


67 posted on 02/26/2014 3:18:09 PM PST by Rainier1789 (My Constitution has a 2nd and 10th Amendment)
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To: Lazamataz
A 36-year-old man

Causes me to wonder how he lived that long.

68 posted on 02/26/2014 3:19:44 PM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Lazamataz
"Relax, you guys, it ain't even loaded, see?!!"

- The late Terry Kath, original guitarist for Chicago.

69 posted on 02/26/2014 3:20:48 PM PST by OKSooner ("As the riders went on by him, he heard one call his name...")
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To: Lazamataz

“Hey, you work the trigger and I’ll look down the barrel. Maybe I can see what’s sticking!”


70 posted on 02/26/2014 3:23:21 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: GMMC0987

First thing my dad taught me as a very little kid.

No such thing as an unloaded gun.


71 posted on 02/26/2014 3:31:13 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Lazamataz

“I’m only going to show you this once!”


72 posted on 02/26/2014 3:53:00 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
Uri’el-2012 quoted NRA:
"Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction
Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot
Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to use"

The NRA does a great disservice to gun safety with this poorly thought out version of "Gun Safety Rules".

Obviously the dead man thought he was pointing the gun in a "safe direction" because he thought the gun was unloaded.

Obviously, the man's intention was to pull the trigger so he thought he was obeying the second rule.

Obviously, the third rule doesn't apply since he thought it was unloaded and didn't expect it to fire.

The Cooper rules (I think Cooper developed them) are better because they emphasize as the first rule that you must "treat every gun as if it is loaded".

You don't have to think it is loaded; you just have to treat it as if it was loaded. Cooper's rule 1.

If you treat a gun as if it is loaded, then obviously you don't point it at your own head because you don't wish to destroy your head. Cooper's rule 2.

If you treat a gun as if it is loaded, then obviously you don't put your finger on the trigger when it is pointed at your head because you don't intend to fire. Cooper's rule 3.

The absence of Cooper's rule 1 is a safety disaster and the NRA should be ashamed.

For completeness sake let's look at Cooper's rule 4; Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

It was not that long ago that a young man who intended to commit suicide shot himself in the head. What he probably didn't intend was that the bullet exited his head and entered a girl standing next to him and killed her.

The NRA so-called safety rules are inadequate and therefor dangerous. I have taught gun safety to many of my friends and they don't touch anything until they can recite Cooper's rules back to me from memory.

73 posted on 02/26/2014 4:10:48 PM PST by William Tell
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To: Usagi_yo

Hmmmm....


74 posted on 02/26/2014 4:11:06 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Zeneta

“I have never heard of anyone testing out the safety of a gun by pointing at their head and pulling the trigger,” Undersheriff Michael McCabe told the newspaper.”

An understatement from the undersheriff, very diplomatic.


75 posted on 02/26/2014 4:14:30 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Lazamataz

Unless she is also very slow she probably got the lesson and will never forget it.


76 posted on 02/26/2014 4:17:19 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Lazamataz
Today's safety demonstration brought to you by


77 posted on 02/26/2014 4:36:50 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: Lazamataz
Well... he didn't exactly disprove his point... The gun would have been safe if it had been unloaded. It just wasn't actually unloaded!
78 posted on 02/26/2014 5:05:59 PM PST by lcms rev
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To: Billthedrill

Yeh, but you try that on someone else, like your girlfriend. That happened in the last few months, in fact.


79 posted on 02/26/2014 5:30:50 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: William Tell
Jeff Cooper rules
were the best we had when they were first developed.

They were developed for dogfaces and grunts.

They worked well enough.

The NRA adopted and the Training Department taught the Cooper Rules.

Over time the Cooper Rules were shown to be ineffective
as "NDs" did not decline.

The NRA Training Department researched a better way to teach gun safety.

The result of this extensive study over a number of years led the NRA Training
Department to reject the Cooper Rules that they had embraced.
This despite Jeff Cooper being on the NRA Executive Committee.

One can only imagine the arguments over many years
until everyone on the executive committee were convinced
that the new NRA Safety Rules were superior to the
then current Cooper Rules.

Anyone who knew Col. Cooper's massive Ego and Pride,
knows how heated these arguments were.

The result was that the NRA adopted the
recommendation of the NRA Training Department.

and issued the following NRA Safety Rules.

Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction

Always keep your finger of the trigger until ready to shoot

Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to use



  • The NRA rules are all positive; and thus easier to remember.
  • The words used are ones that everyone can understand.
  • They are in a sequence, such that if you follow rule one,
    you remain safe even if you violate rule two and rule three.
  • You don't need to waste time and effort remembering that
    all guns are loaded, because if you
    Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction
    it does not matter.

Following the introduction of the new NRA Safety Rules,
the number of "NDs" were reduced and continue to decline.

However in those areas where Cooper Rules continue to be taught,
"NDs" have not declined.

When you plan to shoot there are more rules to follow.

OBTW; I learned the Cooper Rules sixty years ago
as a boy with my first BB gun.

I could repeat the rules and violated them consistently.

I'm sure you did too.

My Daisy Red Ryder was always loaded.

NRA T/C CRSO


80 posted on 02/26/2014 7:45:43 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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